What decides success? Who defines it? Better yet who really achieves it? I remember when I worked full-time...at the end of the day I'd walk to my car and feel full cause I had done a ton, finished a bunch, solved problems and impacted people.
I was thinking about this a lot today. I had fun with my kids and didn't "do" a whole lot besides "be" with them. I love being a mom and there's so many times during the day that I laugh at my life...it's a sweet gig! But, having said that, I didn't "do" anything that fits into the category of a successful day. Unless the definition of success was: teaching my son blow bubbles and laugh, setting up the water slide and watching my daughter giggle while running through it and slide into the mud, listening to my mom and the hard things she's going through, being there for my husband as he walks another family through the loss of a loved one. If this is success then I had a very successful day.

I know a write about a lot of different things on this blog and I know a lot of different people read it: brides wanting to get to know me, friends and family who want to stay up to date with what going on in my life, photographers who get bored editing their own pictures, women who starting reading because they were concerned about the Morrison babies and others who just stumbled on it. All that to say, today I want you to know what ever you did it was someone else's definition of successful. If only we could all relax and enjoy our own lives. Instead of everything you didn't do think about everything you did and did right!

Noemi Hedrick is a passionate wedding and portrait photographer based in Minneapolis. Noemi loves capturing the beauty inside every person. Her vibrant energy for life, love and family are grounded in her own values and loved ones. Noemi has been proudly serving as a wedding photographer for over 15 years and also offers a wide range of photography workshops for professional and amateur photographers.